| Literature DB >> 10691861 |
A A Van De Loosdrecht1, D W Hendriks, N R Blom, J W Smit, J T De Wolf, E Vellenga.
Abstract
We report a patient with autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA) with reticulocytopenia, who showed excessive apoptosis of erythroblasts. Ultrastructural analysis of bone marrow cells showed that 50% of erythroblasts had characteristic features of apoptosis, which was confirmed by staining with Annexin-V. In addition, in contrast to normal erythroblasts, Ig staining of the entire erythroblast population could be shown. These data show that apoptosis may contribute to the mechanism of reticulocytopenia in AIHA.Entities:
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10691861 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2000.01867.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Haematol ISSN: 0007-1048 Impact factor: 6.998